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Sarasota News Leader September 21, 2012 Referring to the Oct. 9 presentation, Davis added, "We won't have the draft numbers, but we'll be working on them in the back- ground, probably." Nonetheless, he said, he felt the numbers would be ready for the board to act on the fees before the Feb. 1 deadline. Davis did point out that if the commission chooses to go with higher impact fees, those could not go into effect until 90 days after they were approved, because of interlocal agreements requiring a public hearing in the City of Venice and notification to the City of Sarasota. If the rates stayed the same or were lower, he said, they could go into effect immedi- ately upon commission approval. Commissioner Nora Patterson expressed concern about getting the study results in time to make the Feb. 1 deadline. "There are going to be requests to extend that re- duction [in the road impact fee]," she said. "You don't want to reduce it twice and then pop it up." Davis replied that he felt the data would be ready no later than early December, which would enable the commission to meet that February deadline. "I'm going to be surprised if we get this done before [then]," Robinson said. Davis told her that he would do as he had in the past in regard to the interlocal agree- ments: Once the commission approved the advertisement of a public hearing on new impact fees, he would put the information Page 19 in a letter to the cities, "to start the … clock …" Barbetta made the motion to authorize the update of the methodology for the cost cal- culations on all the fees, with Thaxton sec- onding the motion. Although Davis had suggested the hiring of a consultant to assist staff with the project, Barbetta opposed that, saying, "We know what our costs are, for road building, for county buildings …" SCHOOL BOARD IMPACT FEES DETAILED During the Sept. 18 School Board work- shop, Deputy CFO Weidner pointed out that Ken Marsh, the district's long-range planning director, had provided an over- view of the education impact fees. The initial October 2002 study justified im- pact fees as follows: • $2,032 for a single-family home • $474 for a multi-family home • $138 for mobile homes • A January 2004 update, requested by the County Commission, justified the follow- ing rates: • $2,675 for a single-family home • $690 for a multi-family home • $197 for a mobile home The third study, in 2008, justified the fol- lowing rates: • $6,341 for a single-family home